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title: ‘Whoever wants a beautiful doll, sweetmeats of all kinds, a little p… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Whoever wants a beautiful doll, sweetmeats of all kinds, a little pair of scissors, a golden robe, and a satin cap has only to say where Fanfaronade has hidden the Princess Mayblossom.’ Who acts: Whoever, satin cap. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2,
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 59

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‘Whoever wants a beautiful doll, sweetmeats of all kinds, a little pair of scissors, a golden robe, and a satin cap has only to say where Fanfaronade has hidden the Princess Mayblossom.’

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**Who acts:** Whoever, satin cap · **What happens:** want, have, say, hide · **To what, where:** beautiful doll, Fanfaronade · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whoever, satin cap), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:4:59
# text = ‘Whoever wants a beautiful doll, sweetmeats of all kinds, a little pair of scissors, a golden robe, and a satin cap has only to say where Fanfaronade has hidden the Princess Mayblossom.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	doll	doll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	satin	satin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
32	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	ccomp	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Mayblossom	Mayblossom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | Whoever | a beautiful doll and sweetmeats of all kinds and a little pair of scissors and a golden robe |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doll=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | a satin cap |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | a satin cap *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **hide** | present · perfect · passive |  | Fanfaronade |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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